Anderson County Sheriff Paul White has released the name of the deputy who was involved in an Oct. 13 shooting that left a Clinton resident dead.

According to information provided by the Sheriff’s Department on Thursday morning, reserve deputy Steven Williams was the county officer who initiated a traffic stop on Pine Ridge Road in the Marlow community about 10:22 a.m. that later involved the shooting death of 30-year-old Randall Kyle Wilcox.

Earlier releases reported Wilcox pulled into a driveway, jumped from the car, and fled on foot — with Williams then giving chase. Reports stated that a short distance later, Williams caught up with Wilcox, a struggle ensued and Wilcox was shot and killed.

The earlier release said Wilcox tried to take the deputy's duty weapon before he was shot.

Williams has been a reserve deputy with the Sheriff's Department since July of 2008 and a senior patrol officer as of June 2012, White's release said. Williams is one of only six reserve deputies out of the Department's 38 reserve deputies who have received advanced training and have the necessary qualifications to be used on patrol.

"By POST (Peace Officers Standards and Training commission), 80 hours is all reserve officers have to get to be turned loose," Chief Deputy Mark Lucas said. "We don't do that. They aren't even given an ID card until after their initial training."

And information from the Sheriff's Department indicates initial training involves 120 to 130 hours before receiving an identification card. The reserve officer is then required to ride with a full-time deputy. To become a senior patrol officer, the reserve must complete all required training and have 200 hours of patrol time with a certified officer. He must then pass a written test and be evaluated by a field training officer.

"He had to build up to it (SPO status)," Lucas said of Williams. "He (Williams) was trained over four years."

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After the Oct. 13 shooting, Williams was taken by Anderson County Emergency Medical Services to the Methodist Medical Center of Oak Ridge, where he was treated and released for injuries received in the struggle.

According to the sheriff, Williams has since received initial critical incident stress debriefing. Additional debriefings for Williams and other Sheriff's Department personnel involved in the incident will follow.

"Since a shooting is one of the most traumatic events an officer will ever experience, we want to ensure Deputy Williams is ready to return to his duties," White said in an Oct. 18 release.

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting and has released no new information. TBI public information officer Kristen Helm said the investigation may take months to complete and would be turned over to Anderson County’s district attorney general.

At the time of the shooting, Wilcox reportedly was wanted on three outstanding arrest warrants: two for contempt of court and one for failure to appear in court, Helm's TBI release stated.

Page 2 of 2 - Wilcox has been arrested at least 20 times over a dozen years — going back to 2000. He was indicted by an Anderson County grand jury in 2009 for carjacking, aggravated assault and theft, after he and another man allegedly carjacked a Cookeville man at knife point and stole his BMW.

The victim sustained a minor cut on his neck during that incident. The case was set for trial in May 2013.

The shooting on Oct. 13 was the second officer-involved shooting this year relative to the Anderson County Sheriff’s Department. In February, Deputy Jonathan “Adam” Bryant and Cpl. James Daniel “J.D.” Powell shot and killed 25-year-old Shana Lee Richardson and 32-year-old Michael Joseph Baker, both of Indiana, after a chase that ended at the Claxton Volunteer Fire Station on Blockhouse Valley Road in Clinton.

In that case, the two victims had shot at the pursing deputies and were reportedly under the influence of marijuana and synthetic cathinone, also known as bath salts.

The TBI also investigated that case and the deputies were cleared of any violation of policy or crime. Anderson County’s district attorney reported in September, when the investigation ended, that the use of deadly force by the county officers didn’t constitute a crime.

Neither Powell nor Bryant was injured in the shoot-out, but both received critical incident debriefings.

In the Tuesday, Oct. 16, 2012, print edition of The Oak Ridger, this newspaper incorrectly stated Powell was no longer with the Sheriff's Department. He is still employed, but on leave.

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